On Sun, 5 Dec 99 20:33:06 GMT John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What steps do users take to keep logs down to reasonable sizes? I > have seen nothing on this aspect of management and so have been > using 'rm' and then creating a new file.
Look into the logrotate package. > If it is possible, I would like to remove everything older than > say seven days on a twice monthly basis after checking there is > nothing I would like to archive for possible future reference. This is possible with logrotate. > I haven't yet found a command to empty a file as opposed to > removing it - does one exist? # > file -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
